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WaterNews for April 12, 2005Benjamin Grumbles WaterNews is a weekly on-line publication that announces publications, policies, and activities of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water. In This Week’s WaterNews:
FY 2005 Drinking Water Funds AvailableEPA has announced the availability of FY 2005 congressional appropriations funds for the Public Water System Supervision (PWSS) and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) programs. These programs provide states, territories, and tribes with resources to protect the water of more than 270 million people. EPA has made $99,745,600 in PWSS grant funds available to help states, territories, and tribes support drinking water programs. Of that amount, EPA is reserving $6,419,900 in funding for tribes and Alaska Native Villages. EPA has also made available $843,200,000 in funds to support DWSRF programs, which provide states with financing for public water system infrastructure improvements. Since the program began in 1997, states have provided nearly $8 billion in low interest loans to public water systems within their states. States, territories, and tribes may apply for funding through their EPA Regional Offices. Additional information about the PWSS and DWSRF programs, including the amount of grant funding available to each state, can be found at: PWSS: http://www.epa.gov/safewater/pws/grants/ DWSRF: http://www.epa.gov/safewater/dwsrf/allotments/ Assistant Administrator Speaks at Several EventsBenjamin H. Grumbles, Assistant Administrator for Water, addressed the National Water Resources Association today in Washington, D.C. Next week he will give the welcoming address at the National Rural Water Association’s Rally on Monday, April 18, 1005, in Washington, D.C. Water Monitoring Data Delivered to EPA Using Central Data ExchangeEPA and the Wind River reservation are part of a joint effort to pilot the Environmental Sampling, Analysis and Results (ESAR) project. The ESAR pilot project will be delivering water quality monitoring data directly over the internet using secure protocols and standards developed by the EPA Office of Environmental Information. "Water monitoring data are important, and sharing it with EPA can only help tribes," said Don Aragon, Director of the Wind River Environmental Quality Commission. The water monitoring data provided by Wind River were collected by the Tribal Wind River Environmental Quality Commission, using funds supplied by EPA through a Clean Water Act Section 106 Water Quality Management Grants. The other participants in the ESAR pilot are the states of Michigan, Texas, and Oregon. This data exchange activity is part of the EPA American Indian Environmental Office (AIEO) Tribal Program Enterprise Architecture (TPEA). Data flows are planned for December 2005. For more information please contact Ed Liu at 202-564-0287 or liu.ed@epa.gov. Subscribe to WaterNewsPlease forward this message to your friends and colleagues who share an interest in water-related issues and would like to hear from EPA's Office of Water. To subscribe to the WaterNews listserve: Send an email message, leave the subject line blank, and address it to: In the body of the message write: Subscribe WaterNews firstname lastname (Please leave one blank space between each word, do not include any other message, and use your actual name- i.e. Subscribe WaterNews Robert Jones) A welcome message will appear in your email box once you are officially subscribed.
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